Jenny North, Director of Policy and Strategy at Impetus Trust- the Private Equity Foundation, explains focusing on the right data and impact management can transform charitable organisations.  Charities operate in multiple markets – and none...

  Carey Oppenheim, Chief Executive of the Early Intervention Foundation, shares her thoughts on the recent Alliance Christmas reception and the work and aims of the EIF to date.  Despite winds ripping through much of Scotland...

  Systematic reviews provide a way of finding out everything we know and don’t and prove mainstream in medical and health research, but common myths are preventing greater uptake of the process. Jonathan Breckon and David...

Your eye gets caught by the dried apples slices and pistachios but your child, sitting in the trolley, sees the Percy pig sweets. The queue is moving slowly, how well do you resist? A commentary by...

Data privacy is on our minds like never before. In a relatively small amount of time many of us have gone from carrying out our daily transactions in person to conducting them digitally. We pay energy...

  The hesitation to reproduce and replicate datasets inhibits clarity and can obscure research results. Alex Sutherland and Nicole Janz at the University of Cambridge argue for a cultural shift to demand more replication of results which can...

  Rebecca Kilburn and Michael Frearson from RAND consider in this guest blog how the European Commission is exploring child well-being, particularly through evidence-based policy and the new  European Platform for Investing in Children. Earlier this...

Since the 1970s, family life in the UK has changed dramatically. Increases in relationship breakdown, remarriage and repartnering have seen us move away from the traditional, two-parent nuclear family and towards more diverse forms of family...

  By Ian Cummins, University of Salford In front of British courts last year were 148,000 people who had 15 or more previous convictions, according to government figures. These reports deserve closer scrutiny. The justice minister,...

  Professor Jonathan Shepherd comments on the dire need for reliable and rigorous evidence to determine what works in probation services.  Offending imposes huge costs on tax payers which are especially burdensome in prevailing economic conditions....

  Professor Henry Overman, the new Director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, explains more about the Centre and the aims of the Centre for the next three years.  Last month saw the...